After all, this is America. They have the freedom to get another job.
Protections Set for Antiabortion Health Workers
Opponents Denounce Proposed Regulation Allowing Federal Officials to Pull Funding
By Rob Stein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, August 22, 2008; A01
The Bush administration yesterday announced plans to implement a controversial regulation designed to protect doctors, nurses and other health-care workers who object to abortion from being forced to deliver services that violate their personal beliefs.
The rule empowers federal health officials to pull funding from more than 584,000 hospitals, clinics, health plans, doctors' offices and other entities if they do not accommodate employees who refuse to participate in care they find objectionable on personal, moral or religious grounds.
"People should not be forced to say or do things they believe are morally wrong," Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt said. "Health-care workers should not be forced to provide services that violate their own conscience."
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I am ambivalent about this
I am ambivalent about this regulation and not on religious grounds. For example I think it would be traumatic for an obstetric nurse to be required to participate in a partial birth abortion. On the other hand, I want pharmacies, especially if it is the only one in town, to stock birth control pills, the morning after pill, and condoms.
I think it would be
Fortunately there's no such thing as a "partial birth abortion" outside of politics. But if there were such a thing, one would thing the nurse would have made a more moral (in her or his own terms) choice.